LGBTQ Resources.pdf - Chaminade University

CULTURAL RESOURCES
The following resources celebrate the LGBT community through art forms and celebration,
offering creative and cultural outlets.
� The Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Cultural Foundation
� The Honolulu Pride Festival Foundation
The Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Cultural Foundation
Address:
1670 Makaloa Street, #204,
PMB #370
Honolulu, HI 96814
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Phone:
(808) 675-8428
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Email / Website:
info@hglcf.org
http://www.hglcf.org/
Businessman Jack Law founded the non-profit Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Cultural Foundation
(HGLCF) in 1997 as an umbrella organization for the Adam Baran Honolulu Gay and Lesbian
Film Festival, now known as the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival (HRFF).
Prior to establishment of the non-profit, the film festival (started in 1989), originally donated
proceeds of the festival to the Life Foundation, the State’s main AIDS/HIV organization. Today,
the HGLCF is a self-supporting non-profit 501(c)3, whose mission is to educate and raise
awareness of the community-at-large about gay and lesbian culture, arts and lifestyle. HGLCF
also works toward instilling a sense of pride and respect among the members of the Gay
community, as well as to highlight the unique cosmopolitan ambiance of the city of Honolulu.
In its 23rd continuous year, the HRFF is one of the longest-running and well-respected Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) film festivals in the country. The festival has presented
hundreds of documentaries, feature films, shorts and animations from around the world, with
special consideration given to Hawai’i-based filmmakers. The HRFF has an excellent reputation
in the film festival community and has been the venue for both U.S. and world film premieres.
Films programmed at the HRFF have gone on to win Peabody and Emmy awards, such as the
documentary, Daddy and Papa. HRFF has worked with PBS Hawai’i to program LGBT content
documentaries. In 2008, a pilot Neighbor Island Outreach in Hilo on the Big Island began.